Princeton University Press, paperback
Publication Date: August 21, 1979
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"[An] ambitious and immensely likable long poem . . . a poem which--a rare thing--seems to combine intimacy and authority."-- "The New York Times Book Review"
"Wise and compassionate. . . . It is one of the most readable long poems in recent memory, graspable by all." ---Kenneth Funsten, The Los Angeles Times
"I can't imagine anyone who, after reading An Explanation of America, wouldn't want to return to it again and again." ---William H. Pritchard, Poetry
